Age:  30
Served:  Almost 6 years
1918 to April 22, 1924

Patrolmen Siemon, 605 Isabella Street, and William Abbe, Deputy Sheriff George Gugle, and Detective James Fuller, on March 29, 1924, attempted to serve a warrant on Pearl Hageman at her home at Fifth and Patterson Streets.  They were attracted to an adjoining house at 411 W. 5th Street by rowdy crowd.  As soon as the door opened at that residence, a man in the crowd fired a shot at the officers.  The officers responded in and Patrolman Siemon captured one of the men.  As Patrolman Siemon escorted him out of the yard, he was hit in the head with a beer bottle and his prisoner escaped.  He recaptured him in the rear yard and another man approached him from the rear and stabbed Patrolman Siemon in the abdomen.  Patrolman Siemon fell to the ground, drew his revolver, and fired three shots.  Joseph Sorell of Scranton, Kentucky, was shot in the leg.  He and his brother, John Sorell of Bellevue, Kentucky, were apprehended and held on charges of cutting to kill. 

Patrolman Siemon was taken to Speers Hospital.  While in the hospital, he developed pneumonia and peritonitis.  Officer Siemon survived 23 days, but died on April 22, 1924.

Patrolman Siemon left a wife.   Newport city officials and members of the Newport Police Department met at his home and escorted the funeral cartage to the church.  The pallbearers were Patrolmen Fred Taylor, Morris Hodesh, Owen McLaughlin, and William Abbe.  He was buried in St. Stephen’s Cemetery on April 25, 1924.

Both suspects were found guilty in a subsequent trial.

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